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August 25, 2008

Dempsey & Whelan win Irish Nats Rd6

The final round of the Irish National On road Nitro Championships took place yesterday at the St. Annes track in Dublin with the main attention being on the 1:10 200mm class with the title still up for grabs. Team Serpent Ireland driver Clive Connolly, who wrapped up the 1:8 title and won the 1:10 A Final to go top of the standings at the previous round, was absent from the season finale meaning Xray driver Eoin Doran had the opportunity to snatch the title on tie break if he could take Round 6 victory, but it wasn’t to be. In qualifying it was top UK Championship racer Mark Gilliland that would TQ ahead of his Xray team-mate Doran with Team Serpent Ireland’s Keith Dempsey third. In the Final however both Gilliland and Doran would hit problems allowing Dempsey to take his first ever national win ahead of fellow Serpent 720 racer Chris Lawlor, who claimed his fourth podium of the season to finish 3rd in the final standings. Doran would eventually finish in the final podium placing but up front Dempsey’s win ensured the perfect 2008 National campaign for Connolly as he defended his 1:8 title and secured the 1:10 title at his first attempt. In the 1:8 Final Kyosho driver Austin Elliott TQ’d but his race ended on the opening lap after contact with another car broke his throttle servo. This allowed Colin Whelan’s Kyosho to go on to take the win from the Serpent pairing of Darragh Fox and Sean Doyle.

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August 24, 2008

Yannick Aigoin wins Coupe de France

The 2008 Coupe de France took place this weekend in Les Andelys, North West of Paris. Qualifying for the 4wd class saw Nicolas Rodriguez take the pole position ahead of Yannick Aigoin in 2nd and Jerome Aigoin in 3rd. Following the semi finals, that were each won by Jerome Aigoin and brother Yannick, it was the Jerome, driving the new Inferno MP9 that would line up on pole position for the main final. In the 45 minute final Jerome unfortunately ran into some problems that saw him finish down in 6th, 4 laps down on the eventual winner Yannick Aigoin driving a Losi 8ight, with current European Champion Renaud Savoya in 2nd for Mugen, while Xray driver Jerome Sartel claimed the last step of the podium in 3rd.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

August 22, 2008

Daily News Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Read the oOple review of the XB808 & Pred X11 – Link [oople.com]
> XB808 wins South German Champs Rd2 – Link [teamxray.com]
> Victory in Luxembourg for Hepp – Link [serpent.com]
> Suliandy wins Indonesia Nationals Rd3 – Link [teamxray.com]
> View the LRP S18 Touring Car video – Link [lrp.cc]
> The Apolaro Report – Podium at GLC – Link [serpent.com]
> MP9 and ST-RR Sweep RC Pro West – Link [kyoshoamerica.com]
> Interview with Jilles Groskamp – Link [rc-junkies.net]

August 22, 2008

Much More Stock Rubber Tire Nats

We were contacted by our good friend Scotty Ernst, who wished to inform us about an event he started a few years ago that has grown into one of their signature events at Trackside. Kicking off the 2008/09 indoor season, on October 3,4 & 5th, will be the Much More supported Stock Rubber Tire Nationals. The SRTN will feature the new Sweep tires, which have made their mark in Europe at the European Touring Series and will soon be coming to the USA. Many great things are planned for participants in the SRTN and this includes some great Much More products.

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August 22, 2008

Kinwald extends X-Factory agreement

X-Factory have announced that 2-Time World Champion Brian Kinwald has agreed to extend his agreement with the company through the end of 2009. Kinwald, who has won more than 30 U.S. National Championships, has been instrumental in the design of X Factory’s upcoming X-60 conversion for the AE T4. From his home in Tucson, Arizona, Kinwald said:

Working with Paul Sinclair on the new truck conversion has been one of the most satisfying projects of my R/C life. Paul has lots of great ideas and we talk frequently to make our ideas work together.. He puts our concepts into Solids and sends me the drawing, then we talk about it, make changes, and Paul sends a new one. I can see my input going directly into the design as it takes shape, something that’s never happened before. I’m just so happy here at X Factory.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

August 21, 2008

Associated SC8 Short Course Race Truck

Team Associated have officially announced the SC8, the first 1:8 scale, nitro 4WD offroad, authentic race truck replicas. Each SC8 comes decked out with one of four fully licensed race truck bodies, wheels and tires, designed to look just like the full size race trucks that run in short course off road series around the country. The world of high-performance R/C has never before seen this level of scale accuracy. Starting with the championship winning RC8T truggy platform, the SC8 was designed to meet the scale specifications of the full size short course race trucks. It’s all there, from the scale suspension travel, to the roll-cage tube diameter, to the functional mud flaps. The result is the SC8, a creation of an unparalleled scale experience at a level of performance that has never been seen before in true scale.

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August 20, 2008

Jansen & Lepelaar win Dutch Nats Rd5

The 5th round of the Dutch Electric Touring car National Championship was held this weekend at the large and fast Groningen track in the north of the Netherlands. The weather was dry for the 5th national in a row, and in the qualifications it was saw Kyosho racer Stefan Jansen that took TQ the only racer to make 19 laps, just ahead of X-Ray racer Hugo Van Den Berg and Corally driver Luke Van Essen. In the Stock class it was Michael Lepelaar (round 3 winner) with his Tamiya who claimed the TQ spot followed by X-ray`s Frans Heinsbroek and Hotbodies driver Vasco Christiaanse on 3th place. Both class finals saw little change to the qualifying positions with Jansen taking the mod win from van den Berg in 2nd and Luke van Essen in 3rd, while in stock it was Lepelaar with the win in front of Heinsbroek in 2nd and Christiaanse 3rd.

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August 20, 2008

Cavalieri wins ROAR Mod 2wd & Truck

Team Orion are reporting on their success at last weeks ROAR electric buggy nationals held at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California. Throughout qualifying defending Champion Ryan Cavalieri proved he was the man to beat by TQ’ing all three of the modified classes. In the Modified Truck Class Cavalieri went on to take full advantage of his TQ position by checking out on the field in the first two A-Mains giving him his 1st National Title of the weekend. In the 2wd Modified Class Cavalieri won leg 1 by 6 seconds but a mistake in leg 2 meant he had it all to do in leg 3. At the tone Cavalieri started out with a fast pace pulling out a small lead on the field and making no mistakes, to take the leg win and overall title. In the 4wd Modified Class RC ended up finishing a very respectable second overall behind Ryain Maifield, having won A-main 1, then ended up finishing a very close second place to team mate Maifield in the last two A-mains.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]